Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Service agreements with municipalities to be renegotiated

Moose Jaw Fire Department chief Rod Montgomery
delivers his request for executive to approve the department
to renegotiate fire service agreements with municipalities
it serves at the Dec. 16, 2013 executive committee meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Executive authorized the fire department to renegotiate fire service agreements.

“Under our current agreements, there is little investment from the R.M.s (rural municipalities), resort villages and the villages. The City of Moose Jaw assumes most of the liability with little benefit to our taxpayers,” said Moose Jaw Fire Department (MJFD) chief Rod Montgomery. “The taxpayers of Moose Jaw pay to have a modern, well-trained fire department in a state of constant readiness to respond to emergencies in the City of Moose Jaw. The present service agreements provide less than one per cent of the fire department budget.

“The value of these agreements provides little relief to the taxpayers of Moose Jaw. However, they are of enormous value to the R.M.s, resort villages and the villages.”

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